On June 25th, 2020 at ~2:00 pm UTC, Microsoft reported that they were investigating connectivity problems with Outlook in Europe and the United Kingdom.
Roughly an hour later, Microsoft reported that they were starting to see service restoration and were still monitoring the issue closely to ensure the issue was resolved.
Several users confirmed that they were experiencing issues within Europe and the UK, as well as user reports from India. Still other users took to social media to express their general frustrations with such service outages given the number of remote workers was reaching an all-time high.
Finally, at approximately 4:00 pm UTC, Microsoft reported that the service had been recovered after an extended period of monitoring.
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